古德柴尔德的欧派传记第一章开头部分：
The brilliant and complex character of Robert Oppenheimer inspired two distinct and contradictory responses among those who knew him. There is a 【substantial majority】 which remembers him as a great man, someone who was gifted with a superb intellect, considerable personal charm, and great personal integrity-someone whom many of them professed to have 【loved deeply】. There is a minority, however, which, while admitting to his intellectual powers - no one disagrees over this -- remembers him as arrogant, calculating and selfish. These people remember him as an actor who, however 【skilfully, was always playing out a role. 】To them he was incapable of proper emotion and had betrayed not only friends but causes - maybe even his own country - for his own ends.
罗伯特·奥本海默那复杂而鲜明的性格，在认识他的人们中引发了两种截然不同且相互矛盾的评价。绝大多数人将他视为一位伟大的人物——他拥有卓越的智慧、非凡的个人魅力以及极高的道德操守，许多人坦言自己深爱着他。然而也有一小部分人，虽然承认他的智力才华（这一点无人否认），却认为他傲慢、精于算计且自私。在这些人看来，他不过是个总是刻意扮演某种角色的演员；他缺乏真挚的情感，为了自己的私利，不仅背叛了朋友和理想，甚至可能出卖了自己的国家。